Miles from Home

The affable Trey Greer is the scion of a successful African-American family with an up-by-the-bootstraps ethos stretching back four generations. Trey breaks away from his father and a business career, but not from his own expectations of a grand future, leaving him dissatisfied— even as he travels through Europe with a jazz band— when reality does not live up to his dreams. What life can' t accomplish, Trey' s mind supplies, in the form of hallucinations starring his heroes Miles Davis, James Baldwin, and Muhammad Ali, wild adventures that point him in new directions. Miles from Home, spanning the years 1992– 2010, explores both race and the way personal expectations and the drive for fame, increased exponentially by the media, stand in the way of happiness and fulfillment. It is the story of a black man trying to make sense of what society and his own family have passed on to him— trying to square that joint inheritance with his own desires and figure out who he is.